Skomack Wielki

This article deals with the village. For the settlement see Skomack Wielki (settlement) .

Skomack Wielki
	Skomack Wielki
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Ełk
Gmina :	Stare Juchy
Geographic location :	53 ° 51 '  N , 22 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '8 "  N , 22 ° 5' 55"  E
Residents :	241 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code :	19-324
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NEL
Economy and Transport
Street :	1852N: Rożyńsk / 1917N– Skomack Wielki (settlement) → Skomack Wielki
	Zelki / ext. 656 ↔ Klusy / DK 16
Rail route :	Czerwonka – Ełk (not in operation)
Next international airport :	Danzig

Skomack Wielki ( German  Skomatzko , 1938 to 1945 Dippelsee ) is a village in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to Gmina Stare Juchy (rural community (old) Jucha , 1938 to 19045 Fliessdorf ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ).

Geographical location

Skomack Wielki is located on the northeastern tip of Jezioro Orzysz ( Aryssee ) in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 18 kilometers west of the district town of Ełk (Lyck) .

history

The village of Skomatzko was founded in 1499 and was divided into districts A and B until around 1900. The Gut Skomatzko domain was established independently of this . Both at that time still separate locations were 1874 in the newly established District incorporated Skomatzko, the - 1938 in "District Dippelsee" renamed - existed until 1945 and the county elk in Administrative district Gumbinnen (1905: Administrative district Allenstein ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

The rural community of Skomatzko, which has now been united from the districts A and B, had a total of 554 inhabitants in 1910, the manor district (domain) Skomatzko 181 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, the manor district was incorporated into the rural community.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the population in the Allenstein voting area , to which Skomatzko belonged, voted on July 11, 1920 on whether it would continue to belong to East Prussia (and thus to Germany) or join Poland. In Skomatzko (village and estate) 500 residents voted to remain with East Prussia, Poland did not cast any votes.

The population of the thus unified Skomatzko municipality amounted to 797 inhabitants in 1933. On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) 1938 Skomatzko was foreign-sounding place names in "Dippelsee" for political and ideological reasons of defense renamed . The population rose to 865 by 1939.

When southern East Prussia was transferred to Poland in 1945 as a result of the war , Skomatzko resp. Dippelsee affected and received the Polish name form "Skomack Wielki". Today the place is the seat of a Schulzenamt ( Polish Sołeczwo ), in which the localities Ostrów (Werder) and Rogalik (Rogallicken , 1938 to 1945 Kleinrosenheide) are included. As such a place Skomack Wielki is a place in the network of the rural community Stare Juchy ( (old) Jucha , 1938 to 1945 Fließdorf ) in the powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ), until 1998 of the Suwałki Voivodeship , since then part of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship .

District Skomatzko / Dippelsee (1874–1945)

Six villages were originally incorporated into the Skomatzko district:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name	Remarks
Ogrodtken	Kalgendorf	Ogródek
Rogallen		Rogale
Rostken (Ksp. Klaussen)		Rostki Skomackie
Skomatzko A.			around 1900 united with Skomatzko B to form the rural municipality of Skomatzko
Skomatzko B.			around 1900 united with Skomatzko A to form the rural community of Skomatzko
Skomatzko, Domain (Good)			1928 incorporated into the Skomatzko rural community

In January 1945 only four municipalities belonged to the Dippelsee district - renamed in 1938: Ogrodtken, Rogallen, Rostken and Skomatzko.

church

Until 1945 Skomatzko resp. Dippelsee in the Evangelical Church Klaussen ( Polish Klusy ) in the church province East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union and in the Roman Catholic Church Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Today, on the Catholic side, Skomack Wielki is itself a church village, which is subordinate to the Klusy parish in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant residents stick to the parish in the district town of Ełk, a branch parish of the parish Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Personalities

Native of the place

• Michael Kajka (born September 27, 1858 in Skomatzko), Masurian folk poet († 1940)
• Bruno Skibbe (born November 5, 1893 in Skomatzko; † August 14, 1964 in Wiesloch), German agricultural scientist
• Paul Ruden (born April 12, 1903 in Skomatzko; † February 5, 1970), German engineer, aviation expert and university professor

traffic

Skomack Wielki is located on the side road 1852, which leads from Rożyńsk (Rosinsko , 1938 to 1945 Rosenheide) via Skomack Wielki (settlement) (Thalau) to here and in town from the side road from Zelki (Neuhoff) to Klusy ( Klaussen) is crossed.

Skomack Wielki is also a station on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ) railway line, which is no longer regularly used .

Individual evidence

1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku , March 31, 2011, accessed on April 21, 2019 (Polish).
2. ↑ Polish Postal Code Directory 2013, p. 1156
3. ↑ ^{a b} Skomatzko (district of Lyck) at GenWiki
4. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Dippelsee
5. ^ Domain Skomatzko at GenWiki
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Rolf Jehke, district of Skomatzko / Dippelsee
7. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district of Lyck
8. ↑ Herbert Marzian , Csaba Kenez : self-determination for East Germany. Documentation on the 50th anniversary of the East and West Prussian referendum on July 11, 1920. Editor: Göttinger Arbeitskreis , 1970, p. 87
9. ^ ^{A b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Lyck (Lyk, Polish Elk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ↑ The addition in the name indicates the difference to the not far away place Skomack Mały ( German  Klein Skomatzko , 1938 to 1945 Skomand )
11. ^ Gmina Stare Juchy: Wykaz Sołectw i Sołtysów
12. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493